What Does A 'Pineapple Express' Mean?

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SEATTLE - A "pineapple express" is a weather pattern when we get to say "aloha" to some driving rains. There are times in the winter when the jet stream --which acts like a steering force in controlling where weather goes -- will dip down into the tropics, and then carry a large batch of tropical moisture northeast into the Pacific Northwest.

Since many times the moisture has its origins in the area near Hawaii, the pattern got the name of "pineapple express."

These tend to be some of the wettest and warmest storms we see during the winter, and a common culprit in causing our lowland flooding episodes.

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When I saw this dramatic cloud to the north, it reminded me of smoke, rising in billows until it hits the jet stream, then it's pulled hundreds of miles east. I had to capture it quickly. Within minutes the effect had faded.

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